16-20 Kickass Random Facts
16. Calcium deficiency can contribute to mood problems such as irritability, anxiety, depression, and difficulty sleeping. – Source
17. Dog the Bounty Hunter met Beth Chapman, his late wife when he posted her bond after she shoplifted a lemon. – Source
18. Kurt Vonnegut had a cameo appearance in the movie; ‘Back to School.’ When the protagonist (Rodney Dangerfield) is asked how he is going to write a paper on ‘Vonnegut’ for a literature class if he hasn’t read any of the books? …the actual Kurt Vonnegut shows up at his dorm room. – Source
19. The Griswold’s home in National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation is the same home from American Beauty. – Source
20. Sarbi, a Special Forces dog from Australia, trained in explosives detection, was MIA for 14 months in Afghanistan after disappearing during an ambush in 2008. She was later rediscovered by an American soldier and flown back to her Australian handlers. – Source
21-25 Kickass Random Facts
21. Before clocks were commonplace, the terms “sunwise” and “deasil” from the Latin root “dexter” (“right”) were used for clockwise. “Widdershins” (from Middle Low German “weddersinnes”, “opposite course”) was used for counterclockwise. – Source
22. Carl Douglas quickly recorded the number #1 hit, “Kung Fu Fighting”, during the last 10 minutes of a studio session in 1974. The song was originally meant to be a B-side track but went on to sell more than 11 million copies. – Source
23. Golden rice is a variety of rice produced through genetic engineering to biosynthesize beta-carotene. It is intended to be consumed in areas with a shortage of dietary vitamin A. Vitamin A deficiency each year is estimated to kill 670,000 children under the age of 5. – Source
24. Ted Bundy was offered a plea deal of 75 years in prison if he confessed to some of his murders, but he backed out at the last minute because accepting meant he had to admit to the world that he was guilty and “he just couldn’t do it”. He was later executed via the electric chair. – Source
25. Upon her death in 2010, heiress Gail Posner bequeathed her seven-bedroom, $8.3 million Miami mansion and a $3 million trust fund to her three pets, including a Chihuahua named Conchita, for whom she bought a $15,000 diamond-studded Cartier necklace in 2007. – Source
